HONG KONG - Busy traffic, loud noise and constant passers-by? Not the problem with these cats. Four legs of the "assistant" can be found in some shops in Hong Kong, the city kept in a hurry through the store at the same...
New Delhi - At least two people died and 28 were injured Wednesday after a train derailed in north India, close to the site of a previous rail accident that killed 146. The incident happened in Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh state,...
  Gunpo, South Korea - A huge man-made robot built in Korea walked like a man, but rocked the ground under its weight and had taken the first infant steps. Designed by experienced science fiction blockbusters, a four-meter high, 1.5-ton Method 2...
JAKARTA - A neighbour of the man who was killed after being locked up in a toilet with 10 others in an apparent murder said the scene of the crime was "horrible". "The people were piled on top of each...
  SEOUL - A South Korean Special Prosecution Team investigating corruption scandal engulfed the president of the state, saying it had put the chairman of the National Pension Service (NPS) on an emergency detention earlier Wednesday. The Special Prosecutor's Office did not...
  Although most surgeons wear surgical gowns during surgery, some of them must wear a heavy set of lead dressings and save the patient's life by working under the radiation. This set of lead devices, about 15 kg, includes lead caps,...
JAKARTA - Six people died and five others were injured possibly due to suffocation after they were locked up by intruders overnight in a 2m by 1m maid's toilet at a posh house in East Jakarta, media reports said. "For...
MANILA - Philippine authorities have seized about 6 billion pesos (S$175 million) worth of methamphetamines in a series of anti-narcotics operations this month that have yielded the biggest haul in the country's history, the justice minister said on Tuesday. The...
  As if things weren't already complicated enough in North Korea, its Supreme Leader Kim Jong-un is urging his country's Christians to forget Jesus and instead commemorate his deceased grandmother. The dictator's grandmother Kim Jong-suk was incidentally born on Christmas eve...
MUMBAI - A Jet Airways Boeing 737 aircraft with 161 people on board veered off an airport runway in Goa shortly before take off just before daybreak on Tuesday, crossing a field before spinning into a ditch on the...